Stephen Hawking dead at 76

[Ph64]

http://www.businessinsider.com/has-stephen-hawking-died

"Stephen Hawking was the rare famous scientist who deserved every bit of his fame," Sean Carroll, a physicist at Caltech, tweeted. "A brilliant physicist and an inspirational person. And quite a character."

"A star just went out in the cosmos," the theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss said on Twitter. "We have lost an amazing human being. Stephen Hawking fought and tamed the cosmos bravely for 76 years and taught us all something important about what it truly means to celebrate about being human."

Hawking, a theoretical physicist, made several discoveries that transformed the way scientists viewed black holes and the universe.

Though he had Lou Gehrig's disease, the neurodegenerative malady also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, that impaired his motor functions, he went on to become a mathematics professor and eventually the director of research at the University of Cambridge's Center for Theoretical Cosmology.

RIP Stephen.

[DrYouth]

The universe is now free to collapse in on itself...



Or expand for eternity...

One or the other.

[Speaker to Animals]

Hopefully they will find a lesbian Arab women to fill Newton's chair.

[Fife]

So who's the undisputed King of Science now? N.D. Tyson or Bill Nye?

Palace intrigue is tasty.

[DBTrek]

Making it to 76 with ALS is no small feat. Well done. Hope you get a better deal in the next life, Stephen.

[Speaker to Animals]

So who's the undisputed King of Science now? N.D. Tyson or Bill Nye?

Palace intrigue is tasty.

You'd need to look at examples of people actually doing science rather than science entertainment.

If you are talking about physics, it's probably going to be a European, since they are the ones still actually doing physics.

David Deutsche comes to mind.

[DBTrek]

If you are talking about physics, it's probably going to be a European, since they are the ones still actually doing physics.

David Deutsche comes to mind.

Or his wife, Ura Deutsche.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

If you are talking about physics, it's probably going to be a European, since they are the ones still actually doing physics.

David Deutsche comes to mind.

Or his wife, Ura Deutsche.

Masterful.

[Fife]

Don't forget his sister, Saltzsche.

[DBTrek]

There’s a hazing process for joining the Deutsche clan. One must first be blinded by the light, then put on the rack.